Except you seem to have switched sides since then.

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by CRConrad

10/9/17 7:02:54 AM

Except you seem to have switched sides since then.

I'm with young Andrew back then, all for using the correct word even at the risk of the great unwashed masses of ignorami not getting it; let them get some fucking Allgemeinbildung.

You seem to have joined your old teacher, prissily proscribing a perfectly correct usage on the grounds that said masses of ignorami may find it "obsolete". Which end of that Bierce quotation do you feel you are on?

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Shouldn't that be "smitten"? - (CRConrad) - (10) - Oct. 5, 2017, 03:59:30 AM EDT

IIRC smite, smote, smitten ... but it's been a while. -NT - (Ashton) - Oct. 5, 2017, 04:12:21 AM EDT

Interesting. - (static) - Oct. 5, 2017, 07:23:02 AM EDT

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Amen, brother.. - (Ashton) - Oct. 5, 2017, 02:40:11 PM EDT

You're contributing to the spreading of dumbth. - (CRConrad) - (5) - Oct. 6, 2017, 01:33:20 AM EDT

Languages are always changing. - (static) - (1) - Oct. 6, 2017, 02:41:41 AM EDT

Yup, sure. But thanks to those of us trying to dam the rising tide... - (CRConrad) - Oct. 9, 2017, 06:47:42 AM EDT

In current usage over here . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Oct. 6, 2017, 03:52:33 AM EDT

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Except you seem to have switched sides since then. - (CRConrad) - Oct. 9, 2017, 07:02:54 AM EDT

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you might want to check it out just in case -NT - (boxley) - Oct. 5, 2017, 08:47:33 PM EDT

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